Turn off private messaging

Ban words, links and other content

Group owners and administrators can ban certain words from a chat. To set the banned words you must be logged in to the HTML 5 version of the chat
as the group owner and click the Main menu
> Banned content.

About banned words

Words in the "word parts" box censors words even when they are a part of a longer word. Exact words box will censor a word only when it is surrounded by spaces. Click on "Example ban words" to pre-populate the boxes.
Banned words are resilient to many misspellings. E.g. if the word "naughty" is on the list, then the message: "nAughty nauggghty nau9hty n.aught.y" will be shown as ****

Control who sees censored messages

If you set "Send censored messages" to Only to author, the sender of censored message will be unaware that their messages are not delivered to other users. This is the most secure option.

Optional anonymity: control whether anonymous messages are allowed

Broadcast mode

Only the owner and designated moderators can post. Use this mode for interviews, live blogging etc.
Log in to your group as the owner. Click the Main menu then choose Chat restrictions and choose Broadcast mode.

Closed without moderators

Slow mode

Restrict users to one post per 30 seconds, or an interval that you set. This does not apply to the owner, and moderators can be exempted from this limitation.
Log in to your group as the owner. Click the Main menu then choose Chat restrictions and choose Slow mode.

Ban proxies and VPNs

Moderation controls

As a group owner, you can delete messages by clicking on the delete button , and block people by clicking on the ban user button . If you do not see these buttons, click on "Set your name" link at the bottom of your group and log in as the owner. You can also grant this permission to your group administrators.

Ban user button

Ban a user from chatting in your group - you can unban them using:Moderation menuUnban users

Delete button

Delete this message, or all messages by this user.

Logged in

You must be logged in as the owner or a moderator to see these features.

Add Moderators

Moderators can ban users and delete messages, and perform other group administrative tasks, depending on their permission levels. We suggest that you make enough moderators so that there's always a moderator in a chat over 300 people. To make new moderators you must be logged in as the owner or administrator and click Moderation menuAdd/remove moderators.

Edit Moderators

You can grant individual permissions to each moderator. There are two permission groups: moderator-level and admin-level. For example, you can grant an admin-level permission to a moderator to make other moderators, or you can grant a moderator-level permission to turn auto-moderation off and on to a moderator. To do so, click on Edit Moderator link next to the moderator name

Auto moderation (beta)

Auto-moderation uses machine text analysis to detect and reject repetitious or nonsense messages. It should work with all languages, including character based. You can access this menu as the owner or a moderator by clicking Moderation menuAuto-moderation.

Chatango Mobile and App

Embedded Chatango groups work on Android and iOS. Please click the Mobile View tab in the group configurator to see the mobile version.
You can moderate and update your group using the Chatango App, currently available from the Google Play store for Android 4.4+.

Periodic Auto Announcements

Send a set message in the chat at a specified interval.
Log in to your group as the owner. Click the Main menu then choose Auto announcements.

Easy ban

If you are moderating a fast group the easy ban mode allows you to ban a user and delete all their messages with one click. To turn on easy ban you must be the owner or a moderator, click Moderation menuTurn On Easyban.

You can also use easy ban moderation on your phone by swiping across a message:

Hide the counter and the participants list

HTTPS support and security

When a Chatango group is embedded into an HTTPS page, it automatically switches to SSL protocol, so that all communications between the browser and Chatango are encrypted. To protect the embedding web sites, Chatango app runs in a separate iframe that has a different domain from the embedding site. To sanitize user generated content, Chatango client does not render HTML in the user messages: Chatango uses its own protocol, and if the client receives normal HTML tags, they are discarded..

HTML5 support

When you generate new code for a Chatango group, HTML5 version is recommended for most applications. Use the HTML5 radio button when choosing the code version. Flash version is currently maintained for legacy browsers (IE8 and 9).
To see the HTML5 version of a group full size on desktop, add /?js to the URL of the group.
E.g. https://examplegroup.chatango.com/?js.